The Girls Of My Boyhood Poem by Francis Duggan

Though memories of them today with me remain
The girls of my boyhood I won't see them again
Of my young school-going days fifteen years from my prime
Those fond memories are not fading in time.

On looking back in time it seems only like last week
When with the girls of my boyhood I played hide and seek
A children's game then that the young used to play
In Summer in the groves from here far away.

I wonder with hair dye do they cover their gray
And with anti ageing creams hide the signs of decay
That ageing to the skin bring some like to look young
Though the songs we grew up with are now seldom sung.

The girls of my boyhood I may never more meet
We well might be strangers if we met on the street
Though in my memory they remain as they were in the past
The beauty of youth it is not meant to last.

As we played hide and seek they hid behind the trees
And though we like to hang on to the old memories
Those days are in the past and the past is forever gone
But that's life I suppose and life must go on.